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Identity Crisis of Young Goodman Brown In "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne applies his personal experiences to relate to the life of Goodman Brown. Hawthorne utilizes the setting, the internal conflict, and the factor of emotion to express Young Goodman Brown's identity crisis. Like Goodman Brown, Hawthorne was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts. He was descended from John Hawthorne, a judge who had presided over the legendary Salem witch trials. Through this relation, Hawthorne uses symbolism to illustrate the story of a young man who reluctantly departs from his world of innocence to realize the widespread evil that exists around him. There is not a great deal of subtlety in these symbols, because Hawthorne clearly wants them to be obvious. The innocent setting at the beginning of the story is set up by the author's establishment of purity through his use of color and symbolism. For example, Goodman Brown's wife, Faith,...

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